In what is perhaps India’s longest ECMO battle against COVID-19, a Chennai man diagnosed with coronavirus and resultant lung complications spent about 109 days on ECMO and ventilator support and recovered without having to undergo a lung transplant, the city hospital which treated him said on Thursday. Mudijja, a 56-year-old from Chennai stepped out of the hospital as a healthy …
Safdarjung Hospital is the only government-run facility in Delhi to offer ECMO as the last resort treatment for Covid-19 patients with severely damaged lungs. The patients offered ECMO treatment at Safdarjung hospital were critical and died of other complications. The first one admitted last year died of a heart attack three days after being put on ECMO and the second …
